The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that it would be testing out a proposed in-game penalty for flopping in the summer league on provisional basis. The NBA announced the move on its official communications Twitter handle on Tuesday, July 4.
The league had defined flopping or a flop in 2012 as “an attempt to either fool referees into calling undeserved fouls or fool fans into thinking the referees missed a foul call by exaggerating the effect of contact with an opposing player.”
The NBA had also introduced an anti-flopping ruling in 2012 but that has rarely been enforced. As per the old rule, a flop by a player resulted in a warning. Post the first warning, there were provisions of an increasing amount of fine for every subsequent flop.
In the latest rule, a flop – to be determined by the referees, will be punished with a single free throw to the opposing team and the possession as well. As for the player who commits the flop violation, the player would be given an unsportsmanlike technical foul.
A flop violation, however, would not be counted in personal fouls or lead to an ejection, read the new flop rules on NBA’s twitter.
The referees won’t be required to stop the live play to call a flopping violation, instead they can wait for the next neutral opportunity to stop the play.
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